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Arstechnica runs on WordPress on AWS, and they have a really nice series of articles about it. Sure, you could use just one EC2 instance for everything, but on a high traffic website you would need a bit more.
But how many sites really are high traffic?
That's the thing with almost all of the cloud stuff: reasonable at scale, but overcomplicated garbage for 95% of the users.